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Mail Merge data source error - can anyone help?
Hi everyone,
I hope you can help. I have an Access MDB and I'd like to extract the records for mail merging directly from within Access.I've set up the macro which calls up Word from within Access with the appropriate data on two of my machines and it works perfectly, but on two others I get the following error message. " The method or property is not available because the current mail merge main document needs a data source". I have no idea what could be causing this or what I need to do to resolve it, moreso as two machines run perfectly well with, I believe, all 4 having the same settings! Any help would be really appreciated, thanks! |
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Mail Merge data source error - can anyone help?
I hope you can help. I have an Access MDB and I'd like to extract the
records for mail merging directly from within Access.I've set up the macro which calls up Word from within Access with the appropriate data on two of my machines and it works perfectly, but on two others I get the following error message. " The method or property is not available because the current mail merge main document needs a data source". Unfortunately, you haven't specified which version of Word you're working with, so we can only guess that... What you're seeing is a result of what's discussed in this article "Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a Word Document - 825765 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765 When this security option is active, and a mail merge document is opened using code, the data source is automatically removed from the document. In this case you have two choices: 1. Set the Registry key mentioned in the article to suppress the security measure 2. Link back up to the data source after opening the document Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Mail Merge data source error - can anyone help?
Cindy M. wrote:
Unfortunately, you haven't specified which version of Word you're working with, so we can only guess that... What you're seeing is a result of what's discussed in this article Cindy, Many thanks for this, I really appreciate that. Sorry for omitting my Word version, what a basic error! It's 2003, for the record. Again, many thanks. Best regards, Dave. -- Dave Jennings |
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